Between Europe and North America, 1919-1945

Between Europe and North America, 1919-1945

* “2001 A Yukon Odyssey” 2 cvrs / Gord Mallett / details of the route flown 30 - 31

Commemorative Airmail Flights and the seven air mail covers prepared

VOLUME XVII , NUMBER 4 [ December 2001 - Newsletter # 49 ]
TITLES / CONTENTS # COVERS / SOURCES / DETAILS AMCN # PAGE #

* New Australian First 1 cvr / Phil Vabre, Nelson Eustis / 4

Flight covers the rise and fall of Impulse Airlines
* 1927: London to London Gordon McDonald / a letter establishes 6 - 7

Flight that the aircraft was not registered

Mail Section” did not travel by air

Lindbergh of Canada” Atlantic flight, Harbour Grace to Croydon

stamps to New Zealand with Sir C. K. Smith

Trans-Atlantic Flight official and privately produced flown covers

Cover to Canada from an Armoured Brigade member in GB

* The Douglas DC-4E 1 cvr / Murray Heifetz / suggestions as to 14

why the plane appears on a Czech stamp

Vancouver to Tokyo results in 50 cents postage due

that Never Happened! to release details related to a crash

* 1961 - An Unlisted Wash- 1 cvr / Jonathan Johnson / additional information 18

ington to Montreal FFC required about the flight and aircraft used

Boeing 727 flights added to Section 5 6314

Victoria Air Race a Staggerwing Beach by Olson & LeMay

First Flight Cover Finnair FFC reported

Cover of the Millennium? was carried on a Quantas tourist flight

McMurray & Edmonton’s ‘new’ Hanger #1

aircraft engines & designers commemorated

A. C. Roessler Airplane Stamp News #1 issue

* Western Canada Airways - 1 cvr / Derek Rance, Conway Longworth- CL40-2700 28 - 29

Red Lake Flights, 1927 Dames / details & a Roessler Red Lake cover

VOLUME XVIII , NUMBER 1 [ March 2002 - Newsletter # 50 ]
TITLES / CONTENTS # COVERS / SOURCES / DETAILS AMCN # PAGE #

* The Golden Age of Flight - 11 cvrs / Chris Hargreaves, Donald Holmes, A6808 2 - 17

A History of Air Mail James Davidson, Jacques Bot, Cheryl Ganz, A7408

Through 50th Anniversary Mike Shand, John Johnson, Andy Mrozowski 8605

Stamps and Covers
* The World’s First Official 2 cvrs / Ken Harman / the Allahabad India flight 19 - 25

Post by Airplane on 18 Feb 1911, circumstances of the flight

presented to Gord Mallett for

compiling the index to the newsletter.
* News - News - News Royal 2002 balloon flown covers and Cinderella 26

stamps designed by Nino Chiovelli

* News - News - News 1 cvr / Royal 2002 flown balloon 3

cover with a CAS Cinderella vignette

designed by Nino Chiovelli

on CAS show activities, show cancellations

palmares and special awards
* Orapex 2002 Mike Shand, Buzz Bourdon / report on the CAS 8 - 9

annual meeting, first airmail into New Zealand

* Patricia Airways 1 cvr / Murray Heifetz / a 14 Sept 1927 postmark 11

suggesting that the company existed four

months earlier than previously reported
* 1931: Is this a Roessler Cover? 1 cvr / information required on who 3105 13

designed the Winnipeg-Pembina cover

Airways cover continue onward to the addressee?

on Newfoundland First each cover has a different combination

Flight Covers of postage or postage due
* 1939 - Imperial Airways Trans- 2 cvrs / Chris Hargreaves, Joseph Bergier / 18 - 20

Atlantic First Flight Covers information and questions about McKnight

Kauffer and other flown covers
* 1942 - Trans-Atlantic First 2 cvrs / John Walsh / information on this FF-63 21 - 22

Flight Covers from Nfld service and the two shown covers

Northern Trans-Atlantic Route? four ‘strands’ of information on routing

* Supplement 10 to AMCN Nino Chiovelli et al / changes and additions 29 - 31

to Section 8 - Canadian Balloon Covers

* News - News - News Day of Aerophilately in Toronto, AAMS 3

President’s Award winner Jonathan Johnson

* Book Review: The Illustrated 1 cvr / Mike Shand / “full airmail history in 4

Flight, Jan 23 - Feb 5 1929 related to Dickin’s historic flight

Stamps Donald Holmes, Mike Shand / covers and 17

stamps highlight aircraft engines and designers
*Follow Up: Geographical Features Mike Painter / the story behind features 12

Named After Air Mail Pilots named after United Air Transport pilots

- Windsor Cover creation of this ‘unofficial’ cover

Demarais Emergency Flight regarding the cause of the flight

information about these “head tax” items

of Covers numbering on covers carried on the Challenger

Edmonton to the U.S.A. Amos / special features on Bob of the CL46-3001b Northland and Cherry Red Airline covers

Jim Brown / unusual foreign franking on 3903x

Nawratil’s Canadian first flight covers
* The Handling of First 1 cvr / Chris Hargreaves, Brian Wolfenden 3619 24 - 26

Flight Covers David Piercey / use of and interpretation of

information on FFC mail bag tags
* Supplement 11 to AMCN Nino Chiovelli et al / changes and additions 28 - 29

to Section 8 - Canadian Balloon Covers

additions to Section 27 - Bibliography

* In Memoriam: Nelson 1 cvr / Chris Hargreaves, Dick Malott / 3

Bentley, 1917 - 2002 details of Nelson’s life and hobbies
* News - News - News CAS Golden Jubilee Medal winners, Pipex 4 - 5

award winners, questions related to proposed

CAS website, Day of Aerophilately in Toronto
* A Sleeper of Sorts Nino Chiovelli / Scott #1183 shows Bonsecours 6

Market - Canada’s first aircraft factory?

Airmail Flight pioneering Quebec to Toronto 1918 flight

Farrington Memorial Air Pageant”

first flight cover but perhaps shouldn’t be 2911

South Atlantic Airmail Crossing the crossing of South Atlantic by Jean Mermoz

North America air mail routes

but to commemorate what event?

9 planes pictured - answers to be in issue #54

trans-Atlantic flight & commemorative cover

on United Airlines Seattle to Vancouver service

War Issue air mail stamp Scott C

Muskoka” / Norwegian pilots in training

signed by author-pilot Geoffrey Wellum

Dec 1942, Iran - U.S.A.

28 Mar 1958, Avro CF-105 Arrow

cover showing full set of the stamps

Photo Taken? Airways Limited sign unlikely to be Toronto

Cecil Stoner / Snowbirds flown covers

* CAS Western Chapter mission statement of the new chapter, 3

listing of executive positions and names
* Editor’s Award 2003 Canadian Aerophilatelist Editor’s Award 6

recipient - Nino Chiovelli, for organizing the balloon

flight at ROYAL 2002 ROYALE and many other

contributions to the CAS

markings including transoceanic directions”

far more on available machine and facilities than ...”

Connection Charles becomes Snowbird #9

Museum and concern about possible eviction

Kerr and the V1500 account of the Dec 1918 flight to Karachi

John Johnson / uncertainty as the when

the company was officially formed and

when it ceased operations

The Sikorsky S-38 amphibian’s undercarriage, accommodation

and hull
* Montreal - Windsor on 3 cvrs / Barry Countryman / created to 17

15 Sept 1930, But Why? commemorate Boyd’s Atlantic crossing?

cachet design is one of Roessler’s 3105f

time to make the flight

Flight Covers new questions about handling of FFCs

Am’s Northern Trans-Atlantic Johnson / two primary-source documents

Route? help to answer previously raised questions
* Book review : Gateway to the Gord Mallett / “for many years Blatchford 22

North by Tony Cashman Field was Canada’s undisputed gateway

to the north”

National Air Service Toronto to Windsor with Buhl

Airsedans” mystery statement
* Miss Halifax - Mary Vetisse 1 cvr / information wanted on the link 3105 27

between postmaster McHale and Vetisse

an etiquette which reads “By Pan

American Air Mail Service”
VOLUME XIX , NUMBER 2 [ June 2003 - Newsletter # 55 ]
TITLES / CONTENTS # COVERS / SOURCES / DETAILS AMCN # PAGE #

* Captain Brian Peck Jim Davidson, Chris Hargreaves / was 5

Captain Peck with the RFC or the RAF

when he made his June 24^th 1918 fight?

to jump-start the space tourism industry

2003 Harmers sale of the “Labrador FF-4

Collection”, Hawker and Grieve,

Alcock and Brown, Major Raynham

caused plane to crash!, reaction

by international level exhibitors

Sticker Stamps details surrounding the design of the

surcharged Canadian Airways CL52
* Follow Up : Roessler 5 cvrs / David Brown, Jim Brown, Murray CL40-2700 14 - 22

and Red Lake Heifetz, Ed Matthews, Derek Rance, John 2801

Bloor, Chris Hargreaves / WCA Roessler

covers that either should or shouldn’t be in

the catalogues, Red Lake postmaster’s role
* A. C. Roessler - Villain 1 cvr / a Roessler cover carried on the 23

or Hero? 1927 PINEDO flight

a Czechoslovakian stamp Helm, Jonathan Johnson, editor / further

suggestions as to why the DC-4E appears

on the Czech stamp

Show of the show and a cover flown to New York

Alaska’ air mail cover was produced

Pilot-Signed Covers position that a pilot signature adds nothing

to the aerophilatelic value of a cover
* Canadian Warplane 3 cvrs / Eric Grove / the issues of 2002, 29 - 31

Heritage Covers listing of covers available at CWH museum

* 50^th Anniversary of the 1 cvr / Jim Davidson, Dick Malott, Ron 5

R.C.A.F. Comets Miyanishi, Francois Bourbonnais, Chris

Hargreaves / commemorative covers

flown on Bombardier CC144 Challenger
* National Air Transport Barry Countryman / an early Toronto to 6 - 8

Limited Windsor passenger service, Buhl Airsedans

Aviation Events … Pictorial Cachets -1909 to 1934, events

explained in part by the cachet message
* Another Patricia Airways & 1 cvr / Chris Hargreaves / question about 17

Exploration Ltd. mystery a CL14 cover with a violet overprint

Aero Show sponsored by Colonial Airlines

cachet Francis J. Field Ltd. that a cover is genuine

A Postal History Handbook

Air Show glider stamp 1999 Salto acrobatic sailplane in the stamp design

handout Board of Trade …”, no doubt related to the

inauguration of regular prairie airmail service
* 1935 crash cover? question as to why “Damaged due to crash at 3521 23

Halifax” appears on a Halifax - Sydney cover

CPO Air Mail logo & O.H.M.S. & free frank

FIELD booklets number of illustrated pages and retail price

* Supplement 12 to AMCN Nino Chiovelli et al / changes and additions 27 - 31

to Section 8 - Canadian Balloon Covers [list 3]

* New Canadian Space Chris Hargreaves / pane of eight stamps, 4 - 5

Stamps each depicting one of the eight Canadian

astronauts who have flown in space

Post’s Cancellation Designer profile of the designer’s 30 years of work

history, two recent Reilander cancellations
* 150^th Anniversary of Flight 1 cvr / Richard Beith, Herbert Lealman / 8 - 9

re-enactment flight by a replica of the

George Cayley glider, commemorative covers
* Richard Pearce: First Person Mike Shand / two miniature sheets designed by 10

to Fly? Keith Griffiths, Auckland Philatelic Society

of Flight Society of New Zealand, Timaru celebrations

listing of achievements of the Underwood

brothers at Krugerville near Botha
* 8^th August 1908 - Fame Donald Holmes / items related to Wilbur 14 - 15

For The Wright Brothers Wright’s public flight at Le Mans France

Mail Cover to Canada cover to Canada, flown from Nassau to Miami

and then carried by rail to La Have Nova Scotia
* Quebec, 1927 - 2002 1 cvr / Pierre Vachon / 75^th anniversary of 17

airmail on the North Shore, La Malbaie to

Seven Islands, Fairchild FC2-W: G-CAIP
* 1929 - 1979 : Re-enacting 1 cvr / Denny May / Denny May and Bob 18

the May-Horner Flight to Horner fly a Fleet “Finch” re-enacting their

Fort Vermilion fathers’ antitoxin flight in an Avro “Avian”,

funds raised for L.A.M.P.

senator’s signature appears on inaugural

NWT flight cover, Wilson’s career details
* The Junkers G.38 1 cvr / Chris Hargreaves et al / construction 20 - 21

and flight details of the Junkers prototype and

the six ‘spinoff’ Japanese Ki-20 bombers
* 1932 - A. L. Anderson 1 cvr / Mike Painter / cover signed by air CL51-3300 22

engineer Anderson in lieu of pilot Paul Calder

who was killed one month after the flight
* 1933 - Receipt for First 1 cvr / Ron Miyanishi / card contains “District 23

Flight Covers Superintendent of Postal Service Winnipeg,

Man” and “AIRMAIL” handstamps
* 1934 : Northern Airways 1 cvr / Jim Brown, Shannon Poelman / 3427 24

Air Mail Service suggestion as to why only two flights

are listed in the airmail catalogue
* From Atlantic to Canadian 1 cvr / David Granger / the cover annotation 25

Arctic suggests the Little America to Herschel Island

journey was by air north from Vancouver
* 1938 - New Find For 1 cvr / Brian Wolfenden / newspaper 3835f 26

Flight 3835 clipping attached to cover, arrived at

Lethbridge too late for flight north
* Crash at Sheddon, Ontario 2 cvrs / Ken Sanford / seldom seen crash 411030 27

on 30^th October 1941 and ambulance covers, American Airlines

found in a sand bag dropped from a WW II

Unit 731 bomb-carrying balloon in Alaska
* 1965 - The Canadair CL-44J 1 cvr / Patrick Campbell / inaugural cover 30

from Reykjavik bears a stamp showing a

CL-44J, Iceland’s 50^th anniversary of aviation
* 2003 : RCAF Comet - RAF 1 cvr / Dick Malott / details of RCAF 31

Nimrod covers Comet anniversay covers, 150 flown

* Editor’s Award Canadian Aerophilatelist Editor’s Award 2004 5

presented to John Irvine for his

research into National Air Transport Limited and

his contributions to the friendly spirit of aerophilately.
* Exhibition News: AEROPEX Mike Shand / Australian Air Mail Society 8

Australia 2003 non-competitive Adelaide show, also N. Z.

& space mail & Imperial Crash covers &

Malayan quality material

Celebrate a Jubilee Exhibition on 100 years of powered flight,

100 1-frame exhibits, 100 exhibitors, 100 subjects
* 75^th Anniversary of the 1 cvr / programme for the departure ceremony, 10

May-Horner Mercy Flight Denny May’s watercolour “Coming Home”

Unsung hero in averting several medical issues involved in the outbreak

diphtheria outbreak
* 75^th Anniversary Re-enactment Denny May / details of the 2004 flight, listing of 13 - 14

those on board the Pilatus PC-12, the stops made

enroute to Ft. Vermilion, partners in the project
* Heroes, Cancels and Trivia 1 cvr / Nino Chiovelli / illustrations and comments 15 - 17

on the six Canada Post cancellations designed

by Nino Chiovelli
* National Air Transport - 2 cvrs / Chris Hargreaves, Barry Countryman, 18 - 25

One Year Later Richard Sanders Allen, Neil Hunter, Terry 2945b

Judge, Jonathan Johnson, Bob Terry / much 2945k

additional information, NAT-related covers

* Follow Up: no Halifax - Barry Countryman / Halifax Herald article 3521 26 - 28

Sydney crash in 1935 confirms no crash or mishap in #3521 flights 2933

“Gov. Letcher, bringing in clothes stolen

from Union Ladies”
* Canada 1946 Seven Cent Bill Pekonen / his monograph guidebook on 30

Air Mail Postage Stamp re-entries and varieties, most studied stamp

since the 1898 Imperial Penny Map stamp